Actor Park Boyoung talked about a new transformation through "Goldland."
On the morning of the 27th at the Conrad Seoul hotel in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, a Disney+ original "Goldland" production press conference was held. Actors Park Boyoung, Kim Sung-Cheol, Lee Hyun-wook, Kim Hie-won, Moon Jeong-hee, Lee Kwangsoo and director Kim Sung-hoon attended the press conference.
Goldland is a golden desire survival thriller in which Hee-joo (played by Park Boyoung), who got hold of 150 billion won in gold bullion from a smuggling organization, fights to take the gold for herself amid a chaos of greed and betrayal.
After returning to Disney+ following Light Shop, Park Boyoung challenged her first crime genre work through Goldland. When asked why she chose the project, Park Boyoung said she wanted to take on a genre challenge, and during a meeting with the director he said many people might imagine that I would return the gold because of my image, and that if someone with that image made a different choice, viewers might feel a different emotion, and that part most moved her.
In the drama Park Boyoung plays customs officer Kim Hee-joo, who awakens to desire because of 150 billion won in gold bullion. When asked about efforts for the character, Park Boyoung said the director first suggested she lose weight because Hee-joo was not someone who had grown up happily and later spends quite a lot of time running away with the gold, so he wanted her face to look thinner; she therefore lost some weight during filming. He said he wanted minimal makeup, so she started with the thought that some should be done but gradually removed much of it.
Director Kim Sung-hoon said, I think showing a real bare face required great courage. Revealing one's desire is not something you can do blatantly; it grows inside, and she delicately and in detail expressed that small change. She gave performances that did not hold back for action and such. What I value most is not only the weight loss but that she did everything without holding back to portray Hee-joo continually collapsing and growing exhausted in life. Although she is actor Park Boyoung, within the drama she becomes the character Kim Hee-joo, shedding Park Boyoung's previous image to show a new side.
Meanwhile, Goldland will be first released on Disney+ on the 29th.
[Photo] OSEN reporter Cho Eun-jung
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